
LIAS light – Item Descriptions
LIASlight ItemID: 13502
Menegazzia dissecta (Rass.) Hafellner
Characters[*]: | Character States[*]: |
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global occurrence: | Eurasia – Asia Extratropical | Eurasia – Europe | Americas – South and Central America |
substrate: | bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs |
life habit: | lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) |
thallus: | foliose (foliaceous), leaf-like | subcrustose (subcrustaceous) |
thallus: | continuous, diffuse, effuse |
[th] upper surface: | grey(ish) | grey(ish) green |
[th upper surface]: | epruinose |
[th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: | present |
[th margin] cilia, cilioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] isidia, isidioid structures: | absent |
[th upper surface] soredia, soralia, soralioid structures: | present |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) width [mm]: | (low) 0.8 (high) 2.5 |
[th] morphol substructures (eg areoles, lobes, branches) upper surface: | smooth, plane | maculate |
[th] lower surface: | black(ish) |
[th lower surface] specific structures: | absent |
ascomata: | absent |
secondary metabolites: | present |
secondary metabolites: | atranorin | constictic acid | cryptostictic acid | menegazziaic acid | stictic acid |
primary photobiont: | present |
secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): | absent |
primary photobiont: | chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid |